But the full-time mother-of-two refused to let her disability get in the way of realising her goal of opening a brand new indoor market in Cleveleys.

Mrs Martin, of Lancaster Avenue, Thornton, said: “When I found out that I had the cancer I wasn’t upset about it.

“You just have to get on with life.”

“The way I see it is there’s nothing I can do about it - it is what it is.”

Mrs Martin, who is now awaiting further tests on the tumour, decided to open the new Victoria Road market along with her friend Laura Clare, 26, to boost the number of visitors coming into the town centre.

She said: “We wanted to help local businesses.”

The Victoria Mall, which is set to open in Victoria Road in November, will be the first in the town since the closure of the HBS Shopping Village in 2013.